Pete Mead

Name: Pete Mead
Birth Name: Felix Grandon Mead
Hometown: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Birthplace: Trumann, Arkansas, USA
Died: 2007-07-02 (Age:83)
Height: 178cm
Pro Boxer: Record

• Pete Mead Gallery
• Managers: J.C. Miller & Tex Sullivan
• Brother of fellow boxers Tullos Lee Mead and Garland Mead 1922-1989
• Born and raised in Trumann, Arkansas.
• Wrote a book entitled Blood, Sweat and Cheers
• Cartoon of Mead
• His boxing career was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army's medical corps in Germany and France during World War II.
• Inducted into the Ohio Legends of Leather Hall of Fame in 1993.
• Operated the Jonesboro Boxing Club with Jim Hanley in the early 1970s.
• Married 65 years to Dorothy Russell Mead, who died in 2004.
• Online funeral home Guestbook & Memorial Video.